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unmarried and want to try bone meal on chicks, 
but not on children,) and wish to know and try 
whatever is good and practical. Herewith I send 
you ten cents for which please send me a sample. 
Also please state in an early number of S-T. and 
H., which, according to your own experience, is 
the best breed of bens for laying and least inclin¬ 
ed to sitting, and where can eggs of that breed be 
had. Should it be too late to give an answer by 
publication for early sitting, then please give me 
the desired information through the. mail, stat¬ 
ing too, the price of the eggs for a sitting. I 
purchased a lot of hens last fall. I believe they 
are left over from the first self-sitting after com¬ 
ing out of Noah’s Ark. Tney are pretty badly 
mixed, and every chance they get to get out of 
the chicken house, they go for the roof of the 
buildings. True, liberty is sweet, but they 
want too much of it; hence, I want to make a 
start getting a better and more profitable breed. 
Respectfully, J. A. F. Scheffeler, 
Tawas City, Mich. 
There are as many different opinions in the 
minds of poultry larmiers, in regard to the best 
breed of fowls, as there are breeds. You will 
probably find much on this subject in this i«sue. 
We have for several years kept Brown Leg¬ 
horns for a family fowl and think well of them. 
They are great layers and non-sitters but not 
the largest fowl by any means. If our obj.ct 
was chickens for market, we should select Lang- 
shans or Plymouth Rocks. French fowls for 
• eggs, Asiatics for meat. 
Wakefield, Mass., Jan. 26, 1883. 
Mr. Editor:—Enclosed please find a slip for 
Seed-Time and Harvest, which I cut from 
a western paper. In our beans we find bugs 
mostly in the Yellow Six Weeks variety. Is 
there any help? Is watermelon, squash, and 
cucumber seed better when more than one year 
old, say 3 to 6 years old? Is the new Golden 
Dawn Mango good to pickle same as any other 
pepper? Please answer through Seed-Time 
and Harvest, and oblige B. W. Oliver. 
We print your selection “Saed-Corn and Mel¬ 
on Seed” elsewhere in this issue. We have no 
positive opinions to express ! upon the subject. 
Any one who wishes can easily experiment on 
it. " ' ■ 
The Bean Weevils are planted with the 
beans or allowed to escape from affected beans 
as soon as the summer weather becomes suffici¬ 
ently warm to develope them. We believe 
that if boiling water was poured upon the seed 
beans and leftuutil cool it would destroy them. 
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Or better yet, plant only seed that is two years 
old or seed which has been brought from sec¬ 
tions which are not infected. We planted 
some for growing seed very late last season and 
thus escaped them entirely. We have not seen 
one in all our seed stocks this season. 
Most vine seeds will retain their vitality 
longer than any other class un ess it is Beets- 
Seeds six or more years old will grow, and we 
have frequently heard it claimed will produce 
more fruit and Jess vine. We cmnot say wheth¬ 
er there is any truih in it or not. The Golden 
Dawn Mango is used both when green and ripe 
the same as any other mango. 
POTATOES IN POUND PACKAGES. 
Mr. Tiiiinghast: 
r 
Dear Sir.—You quote differ¬ 
ent varieties of potatoes at 50 cents and 75 cents 
per pound by mail. Now suppose I order a 
barrel of Belle aud a buf-hel of Wall’s Orange, 
(1.) at what price may I add single pounds of 
other varieties freight on all to be pa d by me? 
(2.) At wffiat rate of discount may I add seeds 
from your mail list? (3.) May I take ■£ bushel of 
potatoes at bushel rates? 
Answer. (1.) Single pounds of potatoes, any 
variety desired, may be added at 25 Cents per 
pound each. (2.) heeds may be added from our 
mail price list at 20 per cent discount from list 
price. (3.) One-half bushel of an) thing may 
be taken at bushel rates, and in ease enough 
pecks or half bushels are taken to make up & 
barrel, put down each at one-tenth of barrel 
prices. 
Annawan, Ill., Feb. 26, 1883. 
I. F. Tillinghast; 
D ar Sir,—Am I to under¬ 
stand by your special offer on potatoes, on page 
32 of your catalogue, that Lean get four pounds 
of Wall’s Orange p tatoes for $2.00. If so, you 
may place my order on your book and notify 
me by return mail, and I will respond with 
P. O., order for $2 00 to be sent as soon as it 
will be safe from frost. Yours Trnly, 
C. F. Swayze. 
Certainly. That is just what v e wish you t& 
understand. We cannot conceive how anyone 
can understand the offer in any other wav, or 
how we ean write it any plainer than already 
written in the special offer referred to. 
The new moon was pointed put one 
evening to JPlinny, who was just learning 
to talk. Being asked-if he saw it, he said,. 
“Yes, I see the rind of it.” 
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